Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Hi Everyone! I'm Lissie and this lovely lady in pink is my partner in awesomeness Sawako Lilly! Welcome to our blog and all the wonderful secrets it contains! Please look at the tabs on the top to navigate. You can go and read all the episodes of Lissie & Lilly and see our adventures in full color glory, as well as see where our little sister Josie is now in her travels and read her travel log. It's no easy thing for a mini doll to travel so far and wide you know, as we're all jealous of the cool places she gets to go.

Perhaps you covet with a shameless heart our wonderful closet of magic and mystery. Learn more about the outfits in the reviews, and see how the outfits look on all the girls at L&L in our closet! In the links section is a plethora of wonderful resources and other blogs that we love and stalk discreetly. Come meet all of us heroic, dashing, fearless girls at L&L and learn more about who each of us are!

There are also paper dolls and color pages for those who are looking for something to do. Or mayhap you want to peruse the history of sales that AG has had in the past? The the Sales History is the place for you. Eyes are the windows to the soul so come stare into all our eyes and compare the different colors AG offers in eyes. We're constantly growing and adding more pages and content so check back often for the latest fun and gory excitement!

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

American Girl's "Create Your Own" custom AG doll was originally slated to be released by now, but it has been delayed (rumors say either due to IT problems, or for the current 20% coupon to expire). The new release date is August 8th, 2017according to a recent Mattel press release. (Click here to read the press release.)

Until then, AG has released a little teaser trailer for the launch on Youtube, showcasing some of the possible combinations. Because I am a nitpicky, curious person, I ended up taking about 70 screenshots from the video to see just what exactly the customization options will be. XD Below is a little visual guide I put together to help people "pre-design" their doll.

Price for Each Custom Doll: $200

Includes:

- Your Custom Doll

- Free Shipping

- Special Doll Box

- Outfit

- Accessory Set

- 6 Month Subscription to AG Magazine

Face Molds & Vinyl Coloring:
There will be 5 face mold options (Classic, Addy, Josefina, Jess, Sonali) and 3 vinyl color options (Light, Medium, Dark). Below are the 15 possible face mold and vinyl color combinations, listed in the order the face molds were created.
**Additional examples of the face mold/color combinations from the AG video are at the end of the post where I posted all the screenshots taken.

Classic Face Mold

Light vinyl

Medium vinyl

Dark vinyl

(Sorry for the blurry quality of this photo! For the life of me I couldn't get a clear screenshot because it went by so fast)

Addy Face Mold

Light vinyl

(I could not find a medium vinyl Addy doll example from the AG video and catalog.)

Hair Styles & Colors:
According to the AG video, there will be 112 style/color combinations of hair.
So this is the section that was the most confusing and hard to figure out. I used a combination of the screenshots from the video, and the catalog images to flesh it out as much as possible, but it is not complete. The categorization of each hair style and color are made up by what I see, and may very well have errors. Please let me know if you see any!

I have split the hair section into 2 categories, Hair Styles & Hair Colors. Both sections have the same images, just organized in a different way depending on what you're looking for.

Hair Styles:

#1 - The Ruthie/Rebecca/#56 Hybrid

#2 - The #58

#3 - Mega Waves & Curls

#4 - Bob with Bangs, aka The Nellie

#5 - The #67

#6 - The Maryellen (-uneven bangs)

#7 - The Jess

#8 - The Kit

#9 - The Lea

#10 - The Grace

#11 - The Pixie

#12 - The Basic Smooth Long Hair

#13 - The Textured Basic

Hair Colors:

The Lighter Blonds

The Darker Blonds

The Darker Brunettes

The Lighter Brunettes

The Darker Carrot Reds

The Caramels

Freckles:
I'm not freckle savvy. Can anyone tell me if these are the same as the original AG freckle pattern? Grace's freckle pattern? A completely new freckle pattern?

Left: No freckles

Right: With freckles

Braces:
I'm not sure if these are painted onto the teeth and relatively permanent, or if they're stickers that can be taken on and off, or if they're an actual plastic piece.

Glasses:
These are the glasses I saw in the video, though the options may continuously change as AG gets new designs and retires old ones. They seem to line up with the Truly Me glasses.

Brown Ombre Glasses

Raspberry Glasses

Striped Sunglasses

Turquoise Glasses

Tortoise Sunglasses

Ear Piercing with Earrings:
I only see the star earrings from the video, though there may be other options.

Hearing Aid:

Outfits:
There are 6 outfits to choose from.

Those cat shoes!!!! XD So cute!

"My shirt looks like static on the TV."

I like this one a lot!

Another outfit I really like. The flower crown looks like the "flower princess" filter on Snapchat. XD

This outfit is also in my top 3.

This one is a little too fuwa-fuwa-princessy for my personal taste though I can see it being a hit with little girls.